Social Question

Would you vote for the very first real zombie in the world to be destroyed or studied?

In a real life scenario, say, tomorrow we all wake up and the breaking world news is that one hospital patient who just died came back to life as a zombie. Very much like the scary Hollywood version of one.

He is now under military quarantine and hasn’t had a chance to bite or touch a live human being. Now, what if the people were asked to vote whether he should be destroyed or kept animated to be studied, what would your vote be and why?

Studied quickly and efficiently under the tightest security imaginable and then immediately destroyed. The risks of keeping one around would increase exponentially for every minute it was allowed to remain “alive.” The benefits of understanding how it came to be would be important for preventing a future outbreak.

Kill it and burn it. Terrorist will definitely steal swabs of it’s saliva and America will be on terrorist alert at all times. (That’s what I would tell the general public what happened…) But really I’d be studying the specimen in Russia.

I vote to make it president, failing that I go woth study. Then again you could just destroy it, on this planet someone dies almost every second or so, if they are starting to come back to life it wont be long until we have all the study subjects we need.

If you think about it, you know someone is going to lobby for the protection of an endangered species and push to try and have the endangered species homo zombificus placed in an enviroment in which it can grow and thrive without fear of being hunted into extinction. Like a quarantined big city. Lol

I’d have to agree with @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard. If this zombie is like a movie zombie and a simple bite can fuck everything up, it should probably be disposed of. However, there’s a reason why this happened, and I don’t think we would be able to know what it is, unless we studied the zombie himself. Unless it was something that seemed key obvious, like a chemical spill, a bite from something else, some kind of disease or some other evident marker, we’d have to study it. We would want to know how this happened, and next, to figure out how to prevent it from occurring further, if it’s possible.

But yeah, I can imagine the political outrage, moral issues and aye, some people thinking it’s the Messiah coming back… it would blow everything out of proportion, and making all this bullshit more important than the fact that this is a real zombie.

I might feel bad, closed minded and savage like for voting to destroy the zombie, however…in a world where zombies could exist, that’s what I’d be there for in the first place, anyway. To destroy them. I would also love to study an actual zombie though.